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Temple of Diana in Timacum Minus and Some Aspects of Cult of Diana in Territory of Serbia
Author(s)
Radmila Zotović
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DOI:10.17265/1537-1506/2018.07.005
Affiliation(s)
Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia
ABSTRACT
Three votive monuments
dedicated to the cult of Diana have been identified to date in the territory of
Roman Municipium Timacum
Minus. Two of them are related to erection and restoration of the temple of
Diana. According to onomastic formulae of the dedicants’ names, the first
monument may be dated into the period of Emperor Hadrian’s rule or immediately
after it, and the other into the period of the reign of Marcus Aurelius or
directly following it. The main methodological approach in this paper was researching
Diana’s cult in general, and then also examining analogies to votive monuments
from Timacum Minus in the territory of Serbia. Even though there have been only
five such monuments identified to date, analogies show that it was already in 2nd
century that the influence of Romanisation in the territory of Serbia was well
under way, and that in worshipping Diana, her companions the nymphs, and Apollo-Diana-Silvanus, it was
indeed Roman deities that were being worshipped and not interpretatio Romana of
indigenous deities. Socio-economic position of the dedicants indicates that
they belonged to middle or upper social strata (legatus legionis VII Claudiae
piae fidelis, duumvir, pontifex, eques Romanus).
KEYWORDS
Roman period, Timacum Minus, Diana’s cult, dating of erection and restoration of the temple, analogies to Diana’s cult in the territory of Serbia
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